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Call for National Climate Plan to Protect Children's Rights and Health.

This Congressional resolution recognizes the climate crisis as a threat disproportionately affecting children's health and fundamental rights, urging immediate federal action. It demands the Executive Branch create a comprehensive, science-based national plan to phase out fossil fuels. If implemented, this plan aims to improve air quality, reduce long-term health costs, and stabilize the climate system for future generations.
Key points
Child Health Focus: The resolution highlights that climate change (pollution, extreme heat) poses unique risks to the physical and mental health of children.
Fossil Fuel Phase-Out: It calls for a national strategy to transition the energy system away from fossil fuels towards non-carbon-emitting sources, potentially stabilizing energy costs and creating new jobs.
Environmental Justice: Emphasizes that vulnerable communities, including low-income and minority groups, bear the greatest burden of climate change impacts.
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Recognizing that the climate crisis is disproportionately affecting the health, economic opportunity, and fundamental rights of children, recognizing the importance of renewed leadership by the United States in addressing the climate crisis, and recognizing the need of the United States to develop a national, comprehensive, and science-based climate recovery plan to phase out fossil fuel emissions, protect and enhance natural sequestration, and put the United States on a path towards stabilizing the climate system.
Print number: HCONRES 31
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Process start date: 2021-04-21